Colonial Failures First Hand

The young man stands there hesitant, staring up at the old Jaguar god whose empty eyes have long watched over this strange cafe by the train tracks.  Much of the free wall mural is now covered up with red and tan checkered boxes.  Black hat tilted to the side, the young man is moving slow, [...]

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The Right to Divorce

Saturday afternoons are a terrible time to march from Texas Tech campus to the court house. Our stops on University were the only times there was enough traffic to bother with chants or silliness. The walk along Broadway to Lubbock’s dead downtown area was uneventful, except when we all thought the leashed beagle keeping step to the march was hyperventilating.

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Sarah Palin?

I had no news access for the last few days. My first thought upon getting on my computer this evening was, “Sarah Palin? Really?” When I arrived in Alaska last year, Palin was about six months into the office of state governor, and the torch of the reform campaign which got her elected still seemed [...]

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Election Thoughts

t’s nearly 2am, I can’t sleep, and Stephen Colbert is doing a fantastic job of making fun of Hillary Clinton. I am having a hard time getting worked up about the election. I’ve kept up on the campaigns, and I’ve read interesting obscura on both McCain and Obama, and this will be the first presidential [...]

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Sin Fronteras! May Day 2008 in Austin

It was the beating of the drums and the strength of voices screaming in Spanish that seemed to shake the dust of jaded bitterness off of my political sensibilities. My feet were moving and I also was shouting in Spanish with the crowd holding up U. S. and Mexican flags, bilingual banners, and babies.

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New Friends

I got to the TCE office around noon, somehow lucid after a sleepless night in an uncomfortable chair in the living room of Hippie Mansion. I spent two hours earning the fantastic business references of an established environmental organization by attacking cardboard boxes with scissors and a box-cutter. TCE needs dead t.v. zombies. Next week’s [...]

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Thoughts of Iran and Election ’08

The following set of links were all published today. Bush Warns Gulf States of Iran Threat Al Jazeera- Bush: Iran Threat to World Security CNN: Bush- Iran Threat to World Security CNN: Iran Agrees to Give Nuke Answers Al Jazeera: Sarkozy to sign UAE nuclear deal It’s always interesting to read about the same news [...]

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I can explain…

I was drinking Shiner down town at a pizza parlor while watching a blue grass show my friend Amanda was playing in, with a bizarre bit of British cinema never being turned off of the large screen television which backed the area serving as a stage. This cute blonde chick, who seemed to be with [...]

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